Elizabeth Warren endorses Hillary Clinton, calls Donald Trump a 'genuine threat to this country'
Progressive icon and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) announced Thursday night she is endorsing Hillary Clinton.
"I'm ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United States and to make sure that Donald Trump never gets anyplace close to the White House," she told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. When asked why she didn't endorse a candidate sooner, Warren said she believed "the primary was a really important opportunity for Democrats to get out there and show this is what it means to be a Democrat. We got out there and pushed those issues forward, and we made sure the American people saw the kind of thinking we have and energy we have and what makes us very different from guys on the other side." She also said she has not been asked to be Clinton's running mate, and she "loves" what she does as a senator.
Warren called Clinton "a fighter" who for 25 years has had to deal with "the right wing" throwing "everything they possibly can at her," and said it was "powerfully important" that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ran his "campaign from the heart" that "took these issues and really thrust them into the spotlight and also brought millions of people into the political process, millions into the Democratic Party." Warren's appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show came just minutes after she lambasted Trump during a speech at a Washington, D.C., legal conference, and she continued her lashing, calling Trump a "genuine threat to this country," an "insecure money-grubber," and a "bully who thinks he's going to get his way by throwing tantrums and giving people ugly names."
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